Body language : writers on identity, physicality, and making space for ourselves /
Body language : writers on identity, physicality, and making space for ourselves /
edited by Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile.
- xi, 322 pages ; 21 cm
The crematorium / When your body is the lesson / (Don't) fear the feeding tube / View from the football field; or, What happens when the game is over / Smother me / Don't let it bury you / Writing my truth as a deaf queer writer / A variant of unknown significance / On the Camino de Santiago / In certain contexts, out of certain mouths / Cut knuckles / Surviving Karen medicine / What I did for the chance to have a baby someday / The small beauty of funeral sex / The year of breath / Papi Chulo philosophics / Little pink feet / Counting to ten without numbers / In praise of fast girls who just want to dance / Weathering Wyoming / Attack of the six-foot woman / The privilege of having soft hands / Teshima / In utero, in a pandemic / To swim is to endure / The climate of gender / Mapping my body with sewing patterns / Women in the Fracklands / Connecting the dots / It doesn't hurt, it hurts all the time / Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile -- Nina Riggs -- Rachel Charlene Lewis -- Kayla Whaley -- Bryan Washington -- Natalie Lima -- Eloghosa Osunde -- Ross Showalter -- Taylor Harris -- Andrea Tuggirello -- A.E. Osworth -- Forsyth Harmon -- Destiny O. Birdsong -- Karissa Chen -- s.e. smith -- Gabrielle Bellot -- Marcos Gonsalez -- Maggie Tokuda-Hall -- Sarah McEachern -- Aricka Foreman -- Jenny Tinghui Zhang -- Hannah Walhout -- Kaila Philo -- Austin Gilkeson -- Maris Crane -- Melissa Hung -- Callum Angus -- Haley E.D. Houseman -- Toni Jensen -- Bassey Ikpi -- Jess Zimmerman. Introduction /
"A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within--and against--expectations of race, gender, health, and ability. Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire, fertility, illness, and the embodied experience of race in deep, challenging ways. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in Body Language affirm and challenge the personal and political conversations around human bodies from the perspectives of thirty writers diverse in race, age, gender, size, sexuality, health, ability, geography, and class--a brilliant group probing and speaking their own truths about their bodies and identities, refusing to submit to others' expectations about how their bodies should look, function, and behave. Covering a wide range of experiences--from art modeling as a Black woman to nostalgia for a brutalizing high school sport, from the frightening upheaval of cancer diagnoses to the small beauties of funeral sex--this collection is intelligent, sensitive, and unflinchingly candid. Through the power of personal narratives, as told by writers at all stages of their careers, Body Language reflects the many ways in which we understand and inhabit our bodies. Featuring essays by A.E. Osworth, Andrea Ruggirello, Aricka Foreman, Austin Gilkeson, Bassey Ikpi, Bryan Washington, Callum Angus, Destiny O. Birdsong, Eloghosa Osunde, Forsyth Harmon, Gabrielle Bellot, Haley Houseman, Hannah Walhout, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Jess Zimmerman, Kaila Philo, Karissa Chen, Kayla Whaley, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Marcos Gonsalez, Marisa Crane, Melissa Hung, Natalie Lima, Nina Riggs, Rachel Charlene Lewis, Ross Showalter, s.e. smith, Sarah McEachern, Taylor Harris, and Toni Jensen."--provided by publisher.
9781646221318 1646221311
2021947048
GBC295883 bnb
020628662 Uk
Human body.
Identity (Psychology)
Gender identity.
Essays.
The crematorium / When your body is the lesson / (Don't) fear the feeding tube / View from the football field; or, What happens when the game is over / Smother me / Don't let it bury you / Writing my truth as a deaf queer writer / A variant of unknown significance / On the Camino de Santiago / In certain contexts, out of certain mouths / Cut knuckles / Surviving Karen medicine / What I did for the chance to have a baby someday / The small beauty of funeral sex / The year of breath / Papi Chulo philosophics / Little pink feet / Counting to ten without numbers / In praise of fast girls who just want to dance / Weathering Wyoming / Attack of the six-foot woman / The privilege of having soft hands / Teshima / In utero, in a pandemic / To swim is to endure / The climate of gender / Mapping my body with sewing patterns / Women in the Fracklands / Connecting the dots / It doesn't hurt, it hurts all the time / Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile -- Nina Riggs -- Rachel Charlene Lewis -- Kayla Whaley -- Bryan Washington -- Natalie Lima -- Eloghosa Osunde -- Ross Showalter -- Taylor Harris -- Andrea Tuggirello -- A.E. Osworth -- Forsyth Harmon -- Destiny O. Birdsong -- Karissa Chen -- s.e. smith -- Gabrielle Bellot -- Marcos Gonsalez -- Maggie Tokuda-Hall -- Sarah McEachern -- Aricka Foreman -- Jenny Tinghui Zhang -- Hannah Walhout -- Kaila Philo -- Austin Gilkeson -- Maris Crane -- Melissa Hung -- Callum Angus -- Haley E.D. Houseman -- Toni Jensen -- Bassey Ikpi -- Jess Zimmerman. Introduction /
"A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within--and against--expectations of race, gender, health, and ability. Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire, fertility, illness, and the embodied experience of race in deep, challenging ways. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in Body Language affirm and challenge the personal and political conversations around human bodies from the perspectives of thirty writers diverse in race, age, gender, size, sexuality, health, ability, geography, and class--a brilliant group probing and speaking their own truths about their bodies and identities, refusing to submit to others' expectations about how their bodies should look, function, and behave. Covering a wide range of experiences--from art modeling as a Black woman to nostalgia for a brutalizing high school sport, from the frightening upheaval of cancer diagnoses to the small beauties of funeral sex--this collection is intelligent, sensitive, and unflinchingly candid. Through the power of personal narratives, as told by writers at all stages of their careers, Body Language reflects the many ways in which we understand and inhabit our bodies. Featuring essays by A.E. Osworth, Andrea Ruggirello, Aricka Foreman, Austin Gilkeson, Bassey Ikpi, Bryan Washington, Callum Angus, Destiny O. Birdsong, Eloghosa Osunde, Forsyth Harmon, Gabrielle Bellot, Haley Houseman, Hannah Walhout, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Jess Zimmerman, Kaila Philo, Karissa Chen, Kayla Whaley, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Marcos Gonsalez, Marisa Crane, Melissa Hung, Natalie Lima, Nina Riggs, Rachel Charlene Lewis, Ross Showalter, s.e. smith, Sarah McEachern, Taylor Harris, and Toni Jensen."--provided by publisher.
9781646221318 1646221311
2021947048
GBC295883 bnb
020628662 Uk
Human body.
Identity (Psychology)
Gender identity.
Essays.